Lahore (NUT-DESK)
The Unmasking, a 15 minutes long, Pakistani short film on Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy has won best foreign short film award in Istanbul, Turkey and Ali Khan, Danish Wakeel with Talal Farhat perform in Unmasking.
The film has been written and directed by Khalid Hasan Khan; an award winning filmmaker, who had won best film award for his debut feature film, ‘HOTAL’ from the Delhi International Film Festival in 2013.
Unmasking deals with the subject of covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, at the same time dismissed social media myths causing a slow vaccination rate around the world especially in developing countries. Have a look on trailer link given below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvNenoKRWqg
The short film is a purely a work of fiction and tackles the anti-vax message that is being peddled to misguide the mass population from availing the benefits of vaccination program.
Khalid Hasan Khan had produced documentaries like “An Early Sunset”; on the lost glory of Lyari footballers, telecast on Ten Sports: “Iron Slaves”; about the lives of ship breakers of Gaddani, an Official Selection of “Workers of the World United Film Festival, Broadway, New York: Murder of Mystic; about the devastation of the Indus Delta mangroves, selected by “DC Environmental Film Fest” for “Green Short Films”.
Khalid Hasan Khan had produced documentaries like “An Early Sunset”; on the lost glory of Lyari footballers, telecast on Ten Sports: “Iron Slaves”; about the lives of ship breakers of Gaddani, an Official Selection of “Workers of the World United Film Festival, Broadway, New York: Murder of Mystic; about the devastation of the Indus Delta mangroves, selected by “DC Environmental Film Fest” for “Green Short Films”.
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